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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

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Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

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The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

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Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

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The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

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Every great group is an island... but an island with a bridge to the mainland.

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Leadership is like beauty - it's hard to define but you know it when you see it.

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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.

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Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity

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Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

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The capacity to create a compelling vision and translate it into action and sustain it.

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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

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To become a leader, then, you must become
yourself, become the maker of your own life

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The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.

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Leaders are people who believe so passionately that they can seduce other people into sharing their dream.

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What job is worth the enormous psychic cost of following a leader who values loyalty in the narrowest sense.

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Listening to the inner voice - trusting the inner voice - is one of the most important lessons of leadership.

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Leaders are people who do the right thing. Managers are people who do things right. … a profound difference.

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The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of the other person.

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If I had to reduce the responsibilities of a good follower to a single rule, it would be to speak truth to power.

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With a vision, the executive provides the all-important bridge from the present to the future of the organization.

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If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, How clear is the metaphor?

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Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.

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You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

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Manage the dream: Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.

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The ability to plan for what has not yet happened, for a future that has only been imagined, is one of the hallmarks of leadership.

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There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

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